Linear and Non-linear Stability of Heat Exchangers

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The hydrodynamical problem of one-dimensional flow with a uniform heat input resulting in a change of phase is considered. Equations of mass, momentum, energy and state representing the dynamic behaviour of such a system are reduced to two coupled equations for the density p(x, t) and the inlet velocity U(t) on the assumption that the pressure drop applied between the inlet and the outlet is “small”. A linear stability analysis is carried out which leads to the problem of computing the zeros of a complicated analytic function. A non-linear analysis is applied to the case of weak instability to find the evolution of the slowly varying amplitude of a small oscillation: in certain circumstances, a “burst” occurs, and in such cases no such small oscillation can exist.

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